, 1887-08-09
RATES of
WIPE OUT THE INFAMY.

Bright and early yesterday morning
Mrs. Helen jenkins called at The LEADER
office. She wanted to know who was the
author of an article which appeared in
Sunday morning. issue, that, she claimed,
was calculated to reflect Upon her charac.
acter as a lady. She experienced no diff.
ficulty in gratifying whatever curiosity
she may have felt on this subject, and at
once turned loose a torrent of the foulest
abuse. Then she quit the office very
suddenly, but not so suddenly as she
might have done had she remained a mo-
ment longer.
In all the years since Cheyenne was
first Incorporated there has been no per-
son in this community who has exercised
so far reaching an influence for evil as has
been exerted by this scrawny bag.
Through years of infamy aud the detest-
able practises of n procuress she has
amassed money, and behind this power
she sits %entrenched, weaving her webs to
catch and besmirch the unwary.
With the tongue Of a vixen and the
venom of a reptile she has for years been
a more dangerous object in this commun-
ity than a copperhead snake. Decent
people have feared to cross her path
knowing that they themselves and their
domestic relations would be besmirched by
the foulest ISLANDERS hat human brain
could conceive. And what possible rem
edy did they have against a wretch of this
description Perfectly characterless her
self, with brazen effrontery she would
have gone on any witness stand in
christendom and under solemn oath sworn
to the most malicious talsehoods imagin-
able.
There is a beast in the animal world
that human beings Acknowledgement Its
prototype is found in tho moral world in
wretches like Mrs. jenkins. Decent PEG.
pie are slow to aggravate such an animal,
but its determination always causes joy
and never regret.
How many pure and spotless girls have
met their downfall through the machina-
tons OF this wretched Jenkins woman
We venture to say scores. Her work has
gone on for years. In miniature it is OF
the same stamp as that which was de-
picted with such dreadful realism IN the
Pail Mall Gazette a little over a year ago.
1t has grown in extent with the growth of
the city. Repeated prosecutions against
her have failed. Years of practice have
sharpened her wits and her tracks are
always carefully covered. 1t is q delicate
and difficult task to bring the creature to
bay. When she is finally unearthed and
dragged into the police court, by some
singular fatality no Jury is ever found to
convict her. Repeated trials and re
peated acquittals nave made her more
daring as the years have gone by. 1t
seemed impossible to convict her and
people have let her go her way as some
unclean thing whose touch was
communicating. And so it has
come to pass that this witch
like creature has of late years pursued
the ever tenor OF her life, engaged in the
systematic work of debauching virtue,
and men have actually feared to wag
their tongues regarding her.
The time is now ripe for the downfall
of this iniquitous wretch. Compared
with her, mere women of the town are
paragons of spotless virtue and the most
degraded nymph du pace a creature OF
Respondent Christian Uraces. 1t is
through the efforts of such as she that
pure young girls are started on the road
to ruin, and human language is mute for
blistering excavations to properly charac-
terize the damnable traffic in which she is
engaged.
VIII a halt be called ? or will the re-
spectacle people of this city stand tamely
by and let this nefarious trade continue
under the very shadow of their churches?
The iron is now hot; let the blow be
dealt with such crushing force that
Madame jenkins and wretches of her
stamp will never recover from its stagger-
ing effects.
TuP Jail dalivery faiIad tO 1nlivar and